Dateline NBC undercover reporter outed A LOT OF MAKEUP can make you prettier, but it won’t make you smarter. Michelle Madigan, Associate Producer for Dateline NBC found this out the hard way at Defcon. According to sources at the show, she was there to do a piece called Hackers for Hire, with the goal of showing the criminal hacker underground and possibly outing an undercover fed. As Michelle was said to have said, “People in Kansas would be very interested in what is going on at Defcon”. She was busted hours before she walked in the door, the first slide…
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Barrington Fencing Club – Illinois Sport Fencing Sword Foil Epee Saber recreation bout lunge parry riposte Where and When? The BFC meets on Tues. (7:00-8:30 PM), in the Community Room of St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, Barrington, IL. St. Michael’s is located at 647 Dundee Avenue – on the Northeast corner of Hillside Avenue and Dundee Avenue. (Note – Dundee Ave. runs North and South between Rte 59 and Lake-Cook Road – it is NOT the same as Dundee Rd. which runs East-West and is also known as Rte 68.) I’ve always, always always been interested in learning how to fence.
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Salt Lake Tribune – Jewish conference faces tough questions PARK CITY – The overarching questions and concerns they’d be grappling with were not new, but when about 40 leading Jewish thinkers, writers, academics, rabbis and professionals arrived in Utah last weekend, they were definitely in for something different. For one, gawkers in the Salt Lake City International Airport reportedly approached a group of them and asked, wide-eyed, “Are you Jews?” And then there was that time on Monday when an outdoor-adventure company, under the guise of a “team-building” exercise, asked them to build teepees. Yes, teepees. News media weren’t allowed…
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Lucky No. 17 Born to Ark. Couple — chicagotribune.com LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – It’s a girl — again — for Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the proud parents of 17 children. And after Jennifer Danielle was born Thursday morning, her parents already were talking about having more children. Ugh. UGH. Disgusting.
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Hah!! The Lingua Felixicahaha moves on to theology, and even to Holy Writ: all prays be to Invizble Man! Now let us go n ur worldz vangelizen ur wordz: my faith, let me show you it. Boulder Dude: *lolz n lolz n lolz* But the best part is in the comments section of PZ Myers post: I can has commandments? I r ur godxxor who has max pwnage. U can has no udder godxxorz b4 mes. U can has no makes pirates jpegz. U can no grief mes. U can no has workinz on Caturdays Max propz to ur momz…
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Cynical? Me? Nah. But this article in the WaPo struck me funny yesterday, and I had to wait until it hit the mobile version of the online paper so that I could link to it without invoking all that crappy javascript they use: Bush Sets Emissions Summit President Bush yesterday formally invited top officials from the world’s leading economic powers to take part in a climate change summit aimed at establishing voluntary goals for lowering greenhouse gas emissions while sustaining growth.The meeting follows a May pledge by Bush to convene the world’s leading economies — and most prolific polluters —…
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As seen at BoingBoing: an author named Gustav Meyrink appears destined to live nearly a thousand years Boing Boing: Vladimir Zimakov’s linoleum cut illustrations and printmaking David Pescovitz: Vladimir Zimakov is an illustrator, book artist, designer, and printmaker who lives in the Los Angeles area. Many of his pieces are meant to illustrate books, but they really contain their own stories. His work oozes with mood and emotion. These two linoleum cut illustrations (“The Card Play” and “Danse Macabre”) are for a classic novel titled Walpurgisnacht, by Gustav Meyrink (1868-2932). The images are indeed handsome, if a little frightening. This…